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Dear All,
I would agree with your interpretation.
The following was the exegesis from "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (jfb.x.xxiii.xxix) — Jamieson, Robert (1802-1880)"
The husbandman uses the same discretion in threshing. The dill ("fitches") and cummin, leguminous and tender grains, are beaten out, not as wheat, &c., with the heavy corn-drag ("threshing instrument"), but with "a staff"; heavy instruments would crush and injure the seed.
cart wheel—two iron wheels armed with iron teeth, like a saw, joined together by a wooden axle. The "corn-drag" was made of three or four wooden cylinders, armed with iron teeth or flint stones fixed underneath, and joined like a sledge. Both instruments cut the straw for fodder as well as separated the corn.
staff—used also where they had but a small quantity of corn; the flail (Ru 2:17).
Thus the farmer would use different instruments to thresh different grains, so as to avoid crashing the tender grains. Some similar sayings, such as "different strokes for different folks." In traditional Confusian teaching, "teaching according to student's capability.
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